Some improvements I would suggest to look into is a decent cooler for that CPU, get some fan filters, throw a couple of 120mm fans in the front. Especially the CPU cooler, AMD coolers are loud when things warm up. And get an SSD, even an SSD cache drive. :)

And lastly, is that 4 sticks of Ram I see? Why didn't you go with 2x 8gb kit? Could have allowed you to expand to 32Gb in the future if the need ever arose.

Otherwise, good budget rig.

Snesboy said:

the-pi-guy said:GPU is probably fine, depending on what you want to play though and at what resolution/settings/frame rate.

Monitor is 1440x900.

As for settings, StarCraft 2 defaulted to extreme and I still got 20 FPS in the late game in a 4v4. The AMD FX CPU is a beast.

Well. An Intel Haswell Dual-Core will beat the FX in StarCraft 2, but overclock the FX and you will pull better frames.You *should* also be able to do 4ghz on stock volts rather easy, my first gen FX can do 4.2ghz on stock volts.